Regional Studies Association - AAG 2019 Two Annual Lectures Exhibition Stand A number of sessions Dear List Members, The RSA will again have a strong presence at the forthcoming AAG in Washington D.C.<https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fannualmeeting.aag.org%2FAAGAnnualMeeting%2FHome.aspx%3Fhkey%3D9c5fc57b-feba-472d-9918-f23136815c1b%26WebsiteKey%3D5c824785-24cf-4da2-80b9-d257a3acc8af&data=02%7C01%7CECONOMICGEOGRAPHY-L%40LISTSERV.UCONN.EDU%7Cebce4099e77842de902708d6a63b1a04%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C1%7C636879170587847824&sdata=ZVcI9wdQ2DJ5NgFvpWZ7RUu%2Fh4N8yFWBSXTIDBVyjKI%3D&reserved=0>, including two annual lectures for our journals, a number of sessions and exhibition stand. Please find the highlights below or click here<https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.regionalstudies.org%2Fnews%2Fthe-rsa-goes-america-meet-us-at-this-years-aag-2019-in-washington-d-c%2F&data=02%7C01%7CECONOMICGEOGRAPHY-L%40LISTSERV.UCONN.EDU%7Cebce4099e77842de902708d6a63b1a04%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C1%7C636879170587847824&sdata=4yuLF9sldO4uZbCRuwXP8bJFk7oleimjNdpxNY2JwGU%3D&reserved=0> to download a handy overview of all our members' sessions: Regional Studies Journal Annual Lecture - Random Acts of Greenness: The Need for Cities to Up Their Game on Climate Change<https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.regionalstudies.org%2Fnews%2Fthe-rsa-goes-america-meet-us-at-this-years-aag-2019-in-washington-d-c%2F&data=02%7C01%7CECONOMICGEOGRAPHY-L%40LISTSERV.UCONN.EDU%7Cebce4099e77842de902708d6a63b1a04%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C1%7C636879170587847824&sdata=4yuLF9sldO4uZbCRuwXP8bJFk7oleimjNdpxNY2JwGU%3D&reserved=0> 4th April 2019, 15:05 - 16:45, Diplomat Room, Omni, Lobby Level Chair: Dieter Kogler, UCD, Ireland Presenter: Joan Fitzgerald, Northeastern University, USA Discussant: Harriet Bulkeley, University of Durham, UK The recent IPCC report reveals that the planet is close to a point of no return. In view of this alarming mandate, we must support the most aggressive climate actions possible. Yet most cities pride themselves on simply plucking the low-hanging fruit-the easy, inexpensive fixes that require little systemic change. The list is long: bike-rental systems, solar waste containers, weak green building requirements, and some recycling efforts. Going after the low-hanging fruit yields benefits, but unless such measures are part of a larger, coherent strategy for altering broad patterns of energy consumption and transportation emissions, these efforts are simply random acts of greenness. We must be honest about what cities are accomplishing. Evidence suggests that most cities are not reducing emissions any more than their respective nations and that reductions that have occurred may be due more to state and national than city policy. This does not mean cities cannot lead, but they must greatly accelerate what they are doing and how they are doing it. Focusing on small-bore measures fosters the illusion among elected officials and citizens alike that we are doing enough. Such over-confidence muffles the enormous political will required to take on the climate crisis in a systematic, integrated fashion. We have to call out random acts of greenness for what they are. Rather than celebrating every action a city takes under the banner of "climate change", we must focus on getting more cities on a path to greenovation. Area Development and Policy Annual Lecture - Chinese Debt-Trap Diplomacy: The Rise (and Fall) of a Meme <https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.regionalstudies.org%2Fnews%2Fthe-rsa-goes-america-meet-us-at-this-years-aag-2019-in-washington-d-c%2F&data=02%7C01%7CECONOMICGEOGRAPHY-L%40LISTSERV.UCONN.EDU%7Cebce4099e77842de902708d6a63b1a04%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C1%7C636879170587847824&sdata=4yuLF9sldO4uZbCRuwXP8bJFk7oleimjNdpxNY2JwGU%3D&reserved=0> Thursday 4th April, 17:00 - 18:40, Diplomat Room, Omni, Lobby Level Organisers: Dieter Kogler, UCD, Ireland; Michael Dunford and Weidong Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Introduction: Douglas Richardson, American Association of Geographers Presenter: Deborah Bräutigam, Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, USA Discussants: Padraig Carmody, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and Meredith DeBoom, University of South Carolina, USA In 2017, a meme was born in a think tank in northern India: "Chinese Debt-Trap Diplomacy." Furthered by a paper authored by two Harvard students, this meme briefly took deep root in Washington, D.C. and then ricocheted far beyond the Beltway, to the New York Times and beyond. Thundered by a US Secretary of State, wafting quietly through intelligence circles, hovering in Congress, settling briefly in the Pentagon, within 12 months the meme appeared to have "about 1,990,000 results (0.52 seconds)" on Google and was beginning to solidify into firm, conventional wisdom, accepted as a deep historical truth. This talk documents the efforts of one Sinologist Africanist to speak "truth" to "power". It concludes with a critical exploration of the relationship among the media, the academy and the policy world. Prof. Deborah Bräutigam is the Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy and Director of the International Development Program (IDEV), and the China Africa Research Initiative (CARI) at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C. Working Smarter Not Harder - The Mysteries of Publishing Unravelled by Regional Studies Association Editors<https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.regionalstudies.org%2Fnews%2Fthe-rsa-goes-america-meet-us-at-this-years-aag-2019-in-washington-d-c%2F&data=02%7C01%7CECONOMICGEOGRAPHY-L%40LISTSERV.UCONN.EDU%7Cebce4099e77842de902708d6a63b1a04%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C1%7C636879170587847824&sdata=4yuLF9sldO4uZbCRuwXP8bJFk7oleimjNdpxNY2JwGU%3D&reserved=0> Friday 5th April 2019, 17:00 - 18:40, Maryland B, Marriott, Lobby Level Organised by Dieter Kogler, UCD, Ireland; David Bailey, Aston University, UK and Jennifer Clark, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Panellists: Ben Derudder, Ghent University, Belgium; Lisa De Propris, University of Birmingham, UK; Mia Bennett, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; Michael Dunford, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Weidong Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Thomas Kemeny, Queen Mary University of London, UK; Sam Park, Seoul National University, South Korea; Raquel Ortega Argiles, The University of Birmingham, UK and Maano Ramutsindela, University of Cape Town, South Africa This session is aimed particularly at early career researchers and students seeking to publish in high quality SSCI indexed journals. The journal editors will address different elements of the publishing process, how to approach writing, how to choose a journal, how to title an article, how to write the abstract and how to use social media to maximize the impact of the piece. The session will address the difficulties faced by authors without English as a first language and those whose PhD and research training has not been in the Euro/American tradition. Economic Geography Sessions - Evolution, Renewal, Development & Policy <https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.regionalstudies.org%2Fnews%2Fthe-rsa-goes-america-meet-us-at-this-years-aag-2019-in-washington-d-c%2F&data=02%7C01%7CECONOMICGEOGRAPHY-L%40LISTSERV.UCONN.EDU%7Cebce4099e77842de902708d6a63b1a04%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C1%7C636879170587847824&sdata=4yuLF9sldO4uZbCRuwXP8bJFk7oleimjNdpxNY2JwGU%3D&reserved=0>Organisers: Dieter Kogler, Jennifer Clark and Peter Kedron The series of Economic Geography special sessions will feature theoretical and empirical research papers under the heading 'Evolution, Renewal, Development & Policy' and is co-organised by the Economic Geography Specialty Group and the RSA. The sessions will include topics such as innovation space, networks, policy, economic development, knowledge creation, relatedness, specialization, institutions, trade, resilience, and regional growth, amongst others. RSA exhibition stand<https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.expocad.com%2Fhost%2Ffx%2Fconferencemanagers%2F19aag%2Fexfx.html&data=02%7C01%7CECONOMICGEOGRAPHY-L%40LISTSERV.UCONN.EDU%7Cebce4099e77842de902708d6a63b1a04%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C1%7C636879170587857829&sdata=VU6pIet859AeGB%2FAJk8flG3PQoYkgYMiVFPHp5dwbC4%3D&reserved=0> The RSA will have an exhibition stand as part of the Routledge/Taylor and Francis stand, number 304/305 at the Marriott Wardman Park, Exhibit Hall B and C on the Exhibition Hall Level. Pop round to inform yourself about our five academic journals<https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.regionalstudies.org%2Fpublications%2F&data=02%7C01%7CECONOMICGEOGRAPHY-L%40LISTSERV.UCONN.EDU%7Cebce4099e77842de902708d6a63b1a04%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C1%7C636879170587857829&sdata=JmQtOl6jMaru8JNIbThQ%2FybFg22fH5vXMIpFck8kTio%3D&reserved=0> and "Regions and Cities" book series<https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.regionalstudies.org%2Fpublications%2F&data=02%7C01%7CECONOMICGEOGRAPHY-L%40LISTSERV.UCONN.EDU%7Cebce4099e77842de902708d6a63b1a04%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C1%7C636879170587857829&sdata=JmQtOl6jMaru8JNIbThQ%2FybFg22fH5vXMIpFck8kTio%3D&reserved=0>. We look forward to meeting you at the AAG in Washington! 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